Nvidia’s groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs

I’ve always been in favor of smarter tech solving brute-force problems, especially when it comes to PC gaming. More efficient rendering, better upscaling, and clever compression — have all worked in the right direction for an industry that’s constantly asking for more power. Nvidia’s Neural Texture Compression is one such solution, and it aims to slash VRAM usage in games so drastically that it almost sounds magical.

While NTC promises to make games a lot lighter on memory, that doesn’t mean it makes them easier to run across the board. Like most of Nvidia’s biggest breakthroughs, the real benefits of Neural Texture Compression climb upward instead of trickling down evenly, favoring the hardware that already has the most headroom.